Danny Kruger: Reform will make Britain a great power again |
Nigel Farage will seek to make Britain a ‘great power once again’, Danny Kruger announced today. Reform’s head of preparing for government pledged to upgrade the country from its ‘regional heavyweight’ status to that of a ‘leading economic, technical, diplomatic and security power’ in Europe.
Kruger set out the foundations of his party’s approach to defence for the first time in a keynote address at The Spectator’s National Security Summit. The intervention comes as the government faces mounting pressure to agree and publish its long-delayed defence investment plan, which is intended to explain how Britain will meet rising threats and address a £28 billion funding shortfall in its depleted defence base. The delay has become increasingly conspicuous in the context of a more volatile global arena.
While Kruger’s speech was light on concrete policies, it offered an insight into the direction in which Reform wants to take........